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Microplasma Research at Saint Peter’s College

Wei-Dong Zhu, Ph. D

Department of Applied Science and Technology, Saint Peter's College

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On behalf of the Translational Medicine and Applied Biotechnology Working Group of Drexel University College of Medicine and Drexel University, I wish to invite you to attend the upcoming Symposium “Horizons in Plasma Medicine”. We would like to encourage basic and clinical scientists, engineers, clinical fellows, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and medical students to attend. The Workshop is scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 2009 from 8:30am -4pm at Geary Auditorium A, New College Building on the Center City Campus. This workshop is free and lunch will be provided.

Registration for this event is requested by emailing: research@drexelmed.edu by April 1, 2009.
Poster abstracts for submission to research@drexelmed.edu by April 7, 2009.

The goal of this workshop is to encourage an exchange of ideas focusing on plasma medicine among varied disciplines in the basic science, engineering, biotechnology and clinical specialties. As we work together to develop a comprehensive plasma medicine program, it is important that we appreciate, understand and collaborate across these disciplines. A cross section of professionals from the basic sciences, biotechnology affiliations, and clinical departments exchanging research goals and project ideas should provide opportunities for interdisciplinary and translational research in plasma medicine.

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Nanoscale corona discharges in liquids receives full-page coverage in Nature

Our paper on nanoscale corona discharges in liquids, which was recently published in Angewandte Chemie (link), has received a full-page coverage in the News and Views section of Nature magazine. There they highlighted the probe's small size, novel plasma, and potential impact on analytical chemistry. The paper has also received coverage on two science news web sites, nanotechweb.org and nanowerk.com.

Read more about this work in the College of Engineering press release here.

Dear Colleagues,

ICPM-2, the Second International Conference on Plasma Medicine, which will take place March 16-20, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas, is now accepting Digests that are about 300 words in length for the conference presentations. The deadline for the Digest submission is November 10, 2008. Please e-mail either pdf or MS-Word version of your digest to Yelena Alekseyeva at yna23@drexel.edu. To be accepted, the digest must identify the presenting author. The digest should be a summary of original work in fields related to Plasma Medicine and could cover the topics such as fundamentals of interaction between plasma and living systems, new applications of plasma in medicine, design of plasma systems for medical applications, physics of plasma discharges in medicine, plasma chemistry in medicine, etc.  Decisions on the acceptance of the digests will be made by the end of November by the Scientific Program committee of ICPM-2 based on the quality of work and the authors will be notified. Accepted digests will be published in the conference proceedings.

Download the PDF version of the poster; image © Ricardo Barros.com 2008.

List of topics that will be represented at the conference:

1) Fundamentals of interaction between plasma and living systems
2) Plasma sterilization of surfaces
3) Plasma sterilization of water
4) Plasma wounds treatment
5) Plasma blood coagulation
6) Plasma cancer treatment
7) New applications of plasma in medicine
8) Design of plasma systems for medical applications
9) Physics of plasma discharges in medicine
10) Plasma chemistry in medicine

Please visit the conference Website for further information: http://plasma.mem.drexel.edu/icpm-2/

Chairman of the Scientific Program Committee
Professor Alexander Fridman
John A. Nyheim Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Drexel Plasma Institute
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Tel: 215 895 1542
E-mail: fridman@drexel.edu

Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Professor Gary Friedman
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept,
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Tel: 215 895 2108
E-mail: gary@cbis.ece.drexel.edu

Conference Coordinator
Dr. Alexander Dolgopolsky
Mathematics Department, Drexel Plasma Institute
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Tel: 215 895 6675
E-mail: ad66@drexel.edu

Photoshoot at the A. J. Drexel Plasma Institute for the Alumni Magazine.

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A.J. Drexel Plasma Institute - BBQ Party.

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2008DPI-BBQ_Party

AJ Drexel Plasma Institute received a new NSF Award focused on collaboration with University of Orleans, France on Plasma Medicine.

Here is a new video of Dr. Alexander Fridman speaking about this on Live Morning TV News in Orleans, France.

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Drexel is way in advance in the world plasma medicine research!

I'm pleased to share with you the interview of Dr. Alexander Fridman on the Central French TV , France3 ,

for their major evening news.
The commentator mentioned that Drexel is way in advance in the world plasma medicine research!

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35th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, Jun 15th-19th 2008, Karlsruhe Germany.

I am pleased and excited to inform you that our student, Sameer Kalghatgi, has won the 2008 Best Student Poster Award at ICOPS 2008. This is a highly prestigious award.

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DPI Seminar

Please join us for another exciting DPI Seminar on Friday, June 20th at 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the DPI conference room.
Our presenter will be again: Dr. Andrey Starikovskiy, Research Professor, Associate Director of the Drexel Plasma Institute,
Director of the Experimental Plasma Laboratory
TITLE: Physics of Plasma Supported Combustion.

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DPI Seminar

Please join us for this exciting one hour seminar on Wednesday, June 11th at 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the DPI conference room.
Our presenter will be: Dr. Andrey Starikovskiy, Research Professor, Associate Director of the Drexel Plasma Institute,
Director of the Experimental Plasma Laboratory
TITLE: Pulsed nanosecond discharges and their applications.

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Drexel University has announced the designation of the A.J. Drexel Plasma Institute which will be a national resource capitalizing on the breakthroughs in plasma science and engineering and their novel application to problems related to energy, health, national security, and the environment.

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DPI Seminar

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Drexel Plasma Institute Students participate in the tenth annual Research Day at Drexel.
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"Applied Plasma Medicine" by Gregory Fridman, Gary Friedman, Alexander Gutsol, Anatoly B. Shekhter, Victor N. Vasilets, Alexander Fridman has now been published online.
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